Re: OT: Renaming the continents

En réponse à "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:

>
> It was an extremely learned and never very well-defined name for
> vaguely western lands.  The name likely derives from the Semitic
> _ereb_ "land of the setting sun".
>
?!!! I thought it came from the Greek name Europa, from Greek mythology?
Deriving "Europe" from |ereb| looks suspiciously like folk etymology to me...

Christophe.

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